RIDGEWAY IPA
Abv: 5.5%
Style: Traditional IPA (not USA style)
Pack: 500ml
Our best seller, this bottle conditioned, hopped IPA is intensely floral, with wine-like tannin and hop resins to the fore. However, allowed to ‘age’ and the tannin will almost disappear with the floral hop being replaced by a more subtle spicy character. Natural carbonation will develop and the beer will pour with a champagne like sparkle.
Abv: 5.5%
Style: Traditional IPA (not USA style)
Pack: 500ml
Our best seller, this bottle conditioned, hopped IPA is intensely floral, with wine-like tannin and hop resins to the fore. However, allowed to ‘age’ and the tannin will almost disappear with the floral hop being replaced by a more subtle spicy character. Natural carbonation will develop and the beer will pour with a champagne like sparkle.
RIDGEWAY BITTER
Abv: 4.0%
Style: Late Hopped Traditional Bitter
Pack: 500ml
This bottle conditioned ale portrays all that is best about the traditional British bitter - hoppy bitterness on the palate and the nose is married with the full body of the beer. Ridgeway bitter uses an unusual aphid-resistant hop variety Boadicea. A golden beer with an aroma of floral hops and a little orange marmalade.
Abv: 4.0%
Style: Late Hopped Traditional Bitter
Pack: 500ml
This bottle conditioned ale portrays all that is best about the traditional British bitter - hoppy bitterness on the palate and the nose is married with the full body of the beer. Ridgeway bitter uses an unusual aphid-resistant hop variety Boadicea. A golden beer with an aroma of floral hops and a little orange marmalade.
OXFORDSHIRE BLUE
Abv: 4.8%
Style: Golden Ale - designed to be served COLD
Pack: 500ml
A slow brewed bottle conditioned golden ale designed to be drunk cold. Traditional Maris Otter malt is blended with a German style pilsner malt, producing crisp, light-bodied and refreshingly clean drink. English Fuggle and Styrian Goldings ensure plenty of good, tangy hop flavours.
Abv: 4.8%
Style: Golden Ale - designed to be served COLD
Pack: 500ml
A slow brewed bottle conditioned golden ale designed to be drunk cold. Traditional Maris Otter malt is blended with a German style pilsner malt, producing crisp, light-bodied and refreshingly clean drink. English Fuggle and Styrian Goldings ensure plenty of good, tangy hop flavours.
FOREIGN EXPORT STOUT
Abv: 8.0%
Style: Strong Stout
Pack: 500ml
Ridgeway FES matures in a similar way to vintage port. Roasted malts and leaf hops initially provide an aroma of breakfast coffee and fresh spices that gradually fades to reveal liquorice, caramel and raisin notes that are products of the aging process. Beneath all this change, sits a solid and resilient backbone of bitter English hops.
Abv: 8.0%
Style: Strong Stout
Pack: 500ml
Ridgeway FES matures in a similar way to vintage port. Roasted malts and leaf hops initially provide an aroma of breakfast coffee and fresh spices that gradually fades to reveal liquorice, caramel and raisin notes that are products of the aging process. Beneath all this change, sits a solid and resilient backbone of bitter English hops.
BAD KING JOHN
Abv: 6.0%
Style: Black Ale
Pack: 500ml
An unusual beer, it is neither a porter nor a stout, but a black ale. It is a proper English pale with the addition of heavily roasted grains. Only English hops are used, some of them later in the boil to leave behind essential oils and hop aroma. This beer tests the drinkers senses – the eyes are saying it’s heavy, the mouth says it’s light, perhaps sometimes dangerously so….
Abv: 6.0%
Style: Black Ale
Pack: 500ml
An unusual beer, it is neither a porter nor a stout, but a black ale. It is a proper English pale with the addition of heavily roasted grains. Only English hops are used, some of them later in the boil to leave behind essential oils and hop aroma. This beer tests the drinkers senses – the eyes are saying it’s heavy, the mouth says it’s light, perhaps sometimes dangerously so….
ESB
Abv: 5.8%
Style: Extra Special Bitter
Pack: 500ml
Exclusively using whole leaf English is the key to refresher, richer and more drinkable beer. Great with cheese.
Abv: 5.8%
Style: Extra Special Bitter
Pack: 500ml
Exclusively using whole leaf English is the key to refresher, richer and more drinkable beer. Great with cheese.
HAMSTER OF DOOM
Abv: 5.8%
Style: Modern Brown Ale
Pack: 500ml
This is a modern brown ale - the only one in a category that we invented to bring traditional brown ale into the 21st century. The beer retains its malty character, but with plenty of classic English hop varieties to lift the flavour and give it freshness.
Abv: 5.8%
Style: Modern Brown Ale
Pack: 500ml
This is a modern brown ale - the only one in a category that we invented to bring traditional brown ale into the 21st century. The beer retains its malty character, but with plenty of classic English hop varieties to lift the flavour and give it freshness.
IMPERIAL RUSSIAN STOUT
Abv: 10.0%
Style: Imperial Stout
Pack: 330ml
Slow, extended ageing before bottling differentiates this style from simply being a strong stout or porter. It makes Ridgeway Imperial Russian Stout considerably more vinous and sharp than an export stout. There is just that little nod towards a lambic beer, with very roast and very bitter flavours. The bitterness mellows over time in the bottle so the style is not intended to be overtly hoppy.
Abv: 10.0%
Style: Imperial Stout
Pack: 330ml
Slow, extended ageing before bottling differentiates this style from simply being a strong stout or porter. It makes Ridgeway Imperial Russian Stout considerably more vinous and sharp than an export stout. There is just that little nod towards a lambic beer, with very roast and very bitter flavours. The bitterness mellows over time in the bottle so the style is not intended to be overtly hoppy.
IMPERIAL BARLEY WINE
Abv: 10.0%
Style: Imperial Barley Wine
Pack: 330ml
As the name suggests, this beer is flavoursome, with perhaps more bitterness than a typical brew of this type. It is dry hopped with English whole hops for extended periods. This gives characteristics that are not immediately significant, but which develop with age and mean that the beer is excellent both fresh and aged. To be enjoyed slowly, savouring the flavours, and drunk from a stemmed glass just as you would with wine.
Abv: 10.0%
Style: Imperial Barley Wine
Pack: 330ml
As the name suggests, this beer is flavoursome, with perhaps more bitterness than a typical brew of this type. It is dry hopped with English whole hops for extended periods. This gives characteristics that are not immediately significant, but which develop with age and mean that the beer is excellent both fresh and aged. To be enjoyed slowly, savouring the flavours, and drunk from a stemmed glass just as you would with wine.
IMPERIAL RED ALE
Abv: 10.0%
Style: Imperial Red Ale
Pack: 330ml
In this beer we have fused the best bits of Red Ale with the best bits of Barley Wine styles and then zipped them up a bit from the usual Barley Wine 8% strength to 10%. The main characteristic comes from using crystal malt, our signature late and dry hopping and a lengthy fermentation prior to bottling. This is the softest and least obviously alcoholic in our Imperial range.
Abv: 10.0%
Style: Imperial Red Ale
Pack: 330ml
In this beer we have fused the best bits of Red Ale with the best bits of Barley Wine styles and then zipped them up a bit from the usual Barley Wine 8% strength to 10%. The main characteristic comes from using crystal malt, our signature late and dry hopping and a lengthy fermentation prior to bottling. This is the softest and least obviously alcoholic in our Imperial range.